Football Face....

I just wanted to share this picture of Drew duing the football season this year. I love the look on his face, for those of you that have seen him play this picture makes all the sense in the world. He is an intense player that puts on his toughest face during every game. It is such a contrast to the boy that he is off the field. A tender hearted boy at home, a freak on the football field!! J.D. and I love football season, it is truly a highlight of our year.

More changes in our life...

We have had alot go on in our home the last few weeks. Drew turned 12 and passed the Sacrament for the first time 2 weeks ago, (he was nervous, but did a great job). I cried of course, thinking that he was just born, the little boy with jaudice, sleeping in a weird suitcase light-up thing in our hallway on Little Creek Drive!!! He is now nearly as tall as me and our hands are practically the same size. How time flies and I don't think any of us realize how fast. He is an awesome son.

Morgan also had some big news this last week, she went on a first date!! I know her birthday isn't for another month, but we decided to let her go to a dance at the school. It was girls choice and she asked a boy named "Mikey" - he is a cute kid and seems nice. She doubled with her friend Kirstyn and her date Robert aka "Freddie". It was fun for me too. I helped her ask him with a pint of ice cream from Baskin Robbins (of course) with a note saying "it would sure be sweet if you went to the dance with me" - He answered with cupcakes saying "no matter how you say it the answer is yes" - he had made cupcakes with yes in different languages written on all of them.

So, I guess what I have learned as of late, is no matter how big my kids get, I am enjoying the stages that they are in. It is fun to see them grow and have life experiences, bitter sweet as it may be, it is what happens. I am so thankful for the kids that I have been blessed with, they are the light of my life.

Ellas turning 4...

It is so hard for me to believe that my little girl is 4!! Where did the time go? She is an amazing part of our family (as you can probably already tell from earlier posts). She keeps us all happy and is such a caring and polite little girl. We had a birthday party for her on Sunday night at our house with my family...it was like Christmas for her, everyone gave her such fun gifts, princesses were a common theme of the night, and she loves them all. Thank you all for coming to help us celebrate!!

Sunday night silliness...

Ella thought it would be funny last night to put on my boots and try and walk around the house. She really worked at getting them on and then had to walk like a penguin/duck in order to not fall down. She is such a fun part of our family. Our ward was split last night for the 4th time in the 5 years that we have lived here, this was after our meeting and it at least got a laugh out of Morgan and Brenna who were devestated...they lost their whole Young Womens presidency and a few of their really good friends, it was a sad night for them. I felt bad for them. At least we have comic relief.

More Halloween...

I was looking harder through my pictures and knew that I had a picture of Drew on Halloween and I have been feeling bad because I haven't posted it. I hate to leave one of my kids out of my post (no matter how yucky his costume was) Also a pic of J.D. and I on the night of our party...we are Real soccer players/fans...they made it to the playoffs and we are excited.

Such a long time, good excuses...

Well, well, well. It has been over a month since I wrote anything, and I feel like I have a few good excuses...our computer died and we had to get a new one, figuring out our internet was quite a challenge. Apparently we had a virus of some sort and it totally shot our old computer and was not allowing us access on our new one. What a pain. The other thing that has been happening in my life and I sound like a baby complaining is that I have been sick for over 3 weeks, and that can take a toll on a person. Finally, after coughing and blowing my nose for 2 weeks J.D. convinced me that it was time to see a doctor and sure enough I had bronchitis. Getting over that has been hard. Now the cough is nearly gone I just have so much fluid in my ears that I can hardly hear a thing....not to mention having a bit of the stomach flu and throwing up on Halloween Night. When it rains, it pours. And for those of you who don't know I am pregnant, nearly 13 weeks, expecting our SIXTH child. Wow.

Halloween was fun, but I am happy it is over. (Yucky month) We had our family Halloween party where everyone dressed up, including my aunt Sandy and Uncle Bob and my Grandma and Grandpa Nelson. It is usually a really fun night, but I was in a funk and apologize to anyone who noticed.

Ella dressed up as some sort of cat, she was pink and black and had feathers, but she loved her costume and wore it well...I still am finding feathers in my house. Jensen wanted to be Indiana Jones and he looked handsome, he wanted a black eye "with blood" and a bloody nose, I told him that Indie was never hurt and he just wanted his face painted. Drew insisted on being something gross and that is the part of Halloween that I hate, ew. Big boys. I love him though and let him dress up as some kind of half skinned warewolf, gross. He had fun. He got to participate in our wards "trunk or treat" because he just turned 12 and joined Young Men (I KNOW!!! Where does the time go?) He was in the spook alley and loved it. Morgan dressed up as Marilyn Monroe and Brenna was a way cute witch. Well, it's time to go pick up Morgan from piano, then I need to go volunteer at the book fair at the school and then take Brenna to dance. Did someone say 'dinner'? Because I don't know when that will be....